Thus it is that men possessing quite different, even opposite metaphysical or religious outlooks can converge…. toward the same practical conclusions, and can share in the same practical, secular faith, provided that they similarly revere…. truth and intelligence, human dignity, freedom, brotherly love, and the absolute value of moral good.
Jacques Maritain
Share In the Same Practical Secular Faith
Topic: Society & Civil Religion
“Thus it is that men possessing quite different, even opposite metaphysical or religious outlooks can converge, not by virtue of any identity or doctrine, but by virtue of an analogical similitude in practical principles, toward the same practical conclusions, and can share in the same practical, secular faith, provided that they similarly revere, perhaps for quite diverse reasons, truth and intelligence, human dignity, freedom, brotherly love, and the absolute value of moral good.“
Jacques Maritain (18 November 1882 – 28 April 1973) was a French Catholic philosopher, and was one of the drafters of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Man and the State
Maritain, Jacques. Man and the State. The Catholic University of America, 1998, p. 111.
Jacques Maritain
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Jonathan Sacks, Side By Side
“The question is not, Can we do without [inter-group and interfaith] dialogue? To that, the answer is No. The real question is: Can we do something else, something non-utopian, practical, small-scale, local, nationwide, that calls for no exceptional capacities for tolerance and mutual understanding? We can, if we understand the difference between face-to-face [talking together] and side-by-side [working together].”
–Jonathan Sacks [The Home We Build Together, Chapter 15] p. 175.